Satyam-Shivam-Sûndaram
Few who drool over today’s ‘Perfect 10s’ pause to look for, or even expect, the other two components of beauty in that person, – truthfulness and goodness.
And few even pause to deconstruct the Sanskrit word for beauty ‘Sûndar’ and really understand that it can only mean ‘Sû + andar’ or, that which is ‘good inside.’
Share this, please, with the young who have the potential of being ‘Sûndar’ without being ‘fair and lovely’. After all, handsome is as handsome does, right!
Remember to look at the words, to hear and break their sounds up. You will often surprise yourself by making connections with Sanskrit that the lexicographers missed.
Oct 27, 2006
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